Paul Bremer, who ran Iraq for 14 months after US-led Allied forces invaded in 2003, says that strategic military blunders had seriously hindered his efforts to contain the insurgency in Iraq and had cost Coalition and Iraqi lives. In a revealing interview in his Maryland home, Bremer spoke out about what he said was his […]
Ten years on from Egypt’s Arab Spring – what has become of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries? Protests in Cairo in 2011 sparked the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak. But did it really change anything? By Colin Freeman 24 January 2021 A woman waves an Egyptian national flag from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square, Cairo on […]
To get into Tahrir Square the evening that President Mubarak was toppled from power – February 11 2011- I crawled under a tank. Later, smiling soldiers on that same tank allowed jubilant crowds to clamber on board. But within a year, a lot of water had flowed under the Nile’s bridges. And to cininue the […]
Doctors in Tel Aviv have tested drugs that they say will stop the body killing itself in a terrible overreaction to a Covid virus invasion. British doctors say a large proportion of Covid deaths are caused by this body response. In a ‘huge breakthrough’ , Ichilov Hospital director Roni Gamzu said the research “gives us […]
For some cancer patients, a “poo transplant” could boost the positive effects of immunotherapy, a treatment designed to rally the immune system against cancer cells. Not all cancer patients respond to immunotherapy drugs. For example, only about 40% of patients with advanced melanoma, a type of skin cancer, reap long-term benefit from the drugs, according to recent estimates. In trying […]
There are lies and lies — and statistics. Or so goes the old adage. Actually that’s not quite true. There are lies and lies — and there are misleading statistics, would be a better way to phrase it. This time, though, the BBC has got its facts and its statistics spot-on. A radio programme called […]
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